Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

636 stock records found. Did you know that you can now search our sold stock? Look for the 'sold stock' filter at the bottom of the filter options.

FRIENDSHIP: THOUGHTS OF GREAT MINDS CONCERNING FRIENDSHIP
Written by Seneca; William Shakespeare; Socrates; et al.
Stock no. 1329043
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Circa 1905. Good condition.

Nister volume 1364. Very small format (6.5 x 8.25cm). Brown cloth, gilt title and red flower vignette to front cover. Lovely colour illustrations (chromolithographs). Short sayings by famous authors surrounded by illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Split to cloth on front edge of spine. Front joint is cracked. Name in ink to front free-endpaper, inscription in ink (dated 1905) to verso of front free-endpaper). Some foxing and light page browning but contents generally clean.

Buy now for £24.00 Add to Wish List

THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL - VOLUME 1
Written by James Macaulay; W.H.G. Kingston; et al.
Stock no. 1829236
Published by Leisure Hour Office. 1879. Fair condition.

The very first Boy's Own Annual. Large format. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt title block to spine, decorative 'B', 'O', 'A' in gilt to front board, remaining title letters are blue. 8 colour and b/w plates, Chess Board for separate use. B/w illustrations to text. iv and 588 pages. Board edges worn with some fraying of cloth. Top & tail of spine very worn with slight loss. Spine is browned. Boards a little scuffed. Text block browned. Endpapers grubby and marked. Transfers and hand-coloured clippings pasted in to prelims and last few pages. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Large plate 'The Death of Nelson' pasted to verso of frontispiece. Frontispiece is listed as 'Moths' but is of British Butterflies. Hinges are pulled but binding is tight. Grubby marks and foxspots to contents. Chess Board is missing. All other plates present. Overall a Good working copy of a scarce annual.

Buy now for £75.00 Add to Wish List

PANSIES
Written by Clifton Bingham; Frances Ridley Havergal; et al.
Stock no. 1328973
Published by Ernest Nister. Circa 1933. Good condition.

White cloth, gilt title and decoration to front cover. Lovely colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. White covers are grubby, ink imprint to front cover. Front joint and some hinges cracked. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Staples rusty. A few small brown spots to some page margins.

Buy now for £18.00 Add to Wish List

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE MEDIEVAL ART (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Paolo Piva; A. Cadel; F. Gandolfo; et al.
Stock no. 1829195
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Paolo Piva. This is the first English language edition, originally published in Italian in 2008 as Architettura. Medievale La Pietra e La Figura. Large format. Black cloth with white titles to spines. Stunning colour photographs. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is split at top closed edge else Very Good.

Buy now for £70.00 Add to Wish List

PUFFIN 50TH ANNIVERSARY STORYBOOK BOX
Written by Barbara Euphan Todd; Norman Hunter; E.B. White; et al.
Stock no. 1328952
Published by Puffin Books. 1st thus 1991. Very good condition.

Containing 10 great puffin story books. Also includes a little booklet entitled "The Story of Puffin Books" by Sally Gritten and "Fifty Puffin Years A Celebration in Poetry". All paperbacks with b/w illustations. Books look unread. Some volumes have light foxing/browning to page edges. The box is rubbed at edges, slightly grubby and scuffed.

Buy now for £41.00 Add to Wish List

PICASSO EROTIQUE
Written by Jean Clair; et al. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso.
Stock no. 1829059
Published by Prestel. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The works in the book include erotic drawings both formal and informal, sketches on the back of notebooks and from private collections, and occasionally paintings and sculptures. Essays by an international team of scholars analyse the primal notion of desire in Picasso's work as well as his relation to voyeurism and exhibitionism, and his understanding of the roles of artist and model. Edited by Jean Clair. Exhibition catalogue. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w sketches and drawings. 365 pages. ISBN: 3791325612. A lovely copy. Red dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and lightly edge-worn across top.

Buy now for £34.00 Add to Wish List

ART NOUVEAU: AN ARCHITECTURAL INDULGENCE (NEW ARCHITECTURE 6)
Written by Andrea Papadakis; et al.
Stock no. 1829057
Published by Andreas Papadakis Publisher. 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited by Andreas Papadakis. The series of movements that formed Art Nouveau are introduced by Victor Awas, a leading international expert on the period and described in a series of essays by specialists from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. 136 pages. ISBN: 1901092348. Front and rear joint pulled from front & rear endpaper due to glue of spine drying out. Contents still tight. Name and date in ink to top of front endpaper (also half-title page). Otherwise a lovely, clean copy.

Buy now for £15.00 Add to Wish List

THE ATLAS OF EUROPEAN MAMMALS
Written by A.J. Mitchell-Jones; G. Amori; et al.
Stock no. 1829007
Published by T. & A.D. Poyser. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Distribution maps. xi and 484 pages including index. ISBN: 0856611301. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, a little grubby, top edge has small tear to rear panel, 1.5" closed tear (no loss) to lower front corner.

Buy now for £45.00 Add to Wish List

MICHAEL BOND'S BOOK OF BEARS
Written by Michael Bond; Jane Hissey; Enid Blyton; Arnold Lobel; et al. Illustrated by Bridget Dowty; Jan Brychta; Maurice Sendak; Meg Rutherford; et al..
Stock no. 1328672
Published by Michael O'Mara books Limited. 1st 1992. Almost very good condition.

Light blue pictorial glazed boards with Paddington featuring. Colour illustrations throughout. 173 pages. ISBN: 1854791117. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Light vertical crease to centre of spine. Front free-endpaper is creased. Some grubby marks to page margins and textblock.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

ATLAS OF FERNS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by A.C. Jermy; H.R. Arnold; et al.
Stock no. 1828965
Published by Botanical Society Of The British Isles; British Pteridological Society. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

Large format. Yellow cardwraps. B/w distribution maps. 101 pages. ISBN: 0901158011. Covers grubby and lightly worn to corners, small split to base of spine. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

Buy now for £14.00 Add to Wish List

FLORIDA WETLAND PLANTS: AN IDENTIFICATION MANUAL
Written by John D. Tobe; Kathy Craddock Burks; et al.
Stock no. 1828960
Published by University Of Florida. 1st 1998. Almost very good condition.

A definitive work, covering a majority of the plant species found in the Florida Wetland Delineation Methodology, 1994. Completely revised and rewritten update to the Identification Manual for Wetland Plant Species of Florida, published in 1972. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos & b/w drawings. x and 598 pages including index. ISBN: 0916287270. Base of spine bashed but contents unharmed. Small split to top front edge of spine. Spine is slightly twisted. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.

Buy now for £60.00 Add to Wish List

BLACKIE'S LITTLE ONES' ANNUAL 1923
Written by Agnes Grozier Herbertson; Natalie Joan; Nina K. Brisley; Ethel Talbot; Alice Talwin Morris; et al. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell; Honor C. Appleton; Rosa C. Petherick; Frank Hart; Grace Lodge; et al..
Stock no. 1328618
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1923. Very good condition.

Cream cloth spine with black title. Front cover shows children feeding the birds. First story is 'The New Ball Goes to See'. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Corners slightly worn. Name and date in ink in belongs to box. Endpapers are very lightly browned. Some light foxing to textblock. A nice copy.

Buy now for £35.00 Add to Wish List